Historical bird plates

Audubon, The Birds of America · Plate 2

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Plate 2 of Audubon's The Birds of America: Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)
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Printed on the plate

“Yellow-billed Cuckoo”

Male. 1. Female. 2. | Papaw Tree. Porcelia triloba.

Modern identification

Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

  • Certain
  • Cuckoos · Cuculidae

Why

Audubon's “Yellow-billed Cuckoo” (Coccyzus americanus) is today's Yellow-billed Cuckoo; same binomial.

Sources

Featherframe havell.yaml; plate title from audubon.org

Who made the plate

Drawn by J. J. Audubon. F. R. S. E.Engraved by W. H. Lizars Edinr.Retouched by R. Havell. Junr. London 1829.

As the credit line gives it. More on who made these plates.

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